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well since Counter-Strike is the worlds most popular online game in history, and has been the most popular since beta days, Im really not seeing your defense on that.

Especially since you cant even claim doom was a huuuuuge pioneer. Wolfenstein was the first fps.

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Doom was the first one that we'd say was recognizably like the ones we have today, with varied architecture and a sense of real immersiveness.

I played Wolfenstein and Doom when they both came out and started as shareware. Wolfenstein blew people away, but a lot of them didn't play it for long or found it admittedly pretty tiresome even when they did, because the lay-out was so lame -- endless corridors with identical textures that all looked alike opening into rooms that all looked alike. Everything was one-story.

Doom was the first one with a real feeling of space and naturalness, where it really felt like a world and not just a video game. It was definitely revolutionary, and basically completely rocked the planet.